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Show ADMIRAL KOLCHAK RESIGNS AS CHIEF RULER Thousands Fail to Ap-I Ap-I pear for Work at Various Plants. . ARMED GUARDS BUSY i Huge Supplies of Food " ; Sent Inside to Men I Who Stay. I 4 4 4 STRIKERS' REPORT. U PITTSBURG. Pa . Sept. 22 A ' noon Y illiam X Fio i . iary i f of the national oi.uuittee for or- 1 ganizing iron and sto.. workers, I h ?ae out the tollowing (i.'rurcs n I B indicating the number of men on ! I It strike II Chicago district, 60,000; I lev l 14 land. 30,000. Youngstown. 65.000; I Buffalo, 12,000; Homestead. 9.- 4 I 1 000; Braddork r..0"0; Rankin, 3.- 4 n i'h i , i ...ri..i. ' -.,,,, Monesot and Donora, 12.000; Wheeling:, lS'.OOO; - U Sieubenville, G.000; Pueblo. 6,000; f I B McKeesport and Duquesne, 12,- f-j I B 000; Pittsburg city, 15,000; Van- 14 dcrgrift, -1 ,o " . Lcechburg. 2,000; 4- ( 4 Brackenridge, r,,uiin Johnstown, r 14 15,1.100; Coatesville, 4,000. 1 6 a 14 BETHLEHEM. Pa, Sept. 22 Delegates representing all the . If unions of the 35,000 employes ol 4- . the RMhlthi-m Steel company at 4 fct a meeting last night decided they 1.4 would not participate iu the strike b It present In:-. tend ibey v. ill B await the oitcome of a meeting 4 they expert to have with i oiu 4i 4 pany oi'h. B' Union leaders say if they fail B to secure a conference by four 4 Bp m., Thursday, the national f4 committee will be asked to call ' a strike for nei Monday 4 Labor hei'd.-, ipn-: it-..- liin" that Charles M. Schwab will con- 4- W slder their grievances and aoid 4 a strik- 4-, If Preliminary skirmish in the great H industrial struggle which opened to-'B'y to-'B'y between the great labor unions I and the United States Steel corpora- tion which directly or indirectly af- 'ects half a million wage earners, pro-Ij pro-Ij dwcel the usual conflicting claims by the generals on both sides. In the great strategic centers of the i atruggle, the Chicago and Pittsburg I dtltricU, many thousands of workers Obeyed the strike order, but early re-J re-J ports stated that comparatively few I plants had been compelled to cloce. Ft a large number of the outlying Points officials of smaller plants re-ported re-ported they were operating as usual Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the wad of directors of the steel corporation, corpora-tion, refused to make any comment on the situation. Secretary Foster of the steel work-rs work-rs union issued a statement exprcss-in0 exprcss-in0 satisfaction with the outlook and Claiming that reports from outside the Pittsburg district showed that the Shutdown was general. An important feature of the situation situa-tion was the announcement by representatives repre-sentatives of the 35,000 workers employed em-ployed by the Bethlehem Steel com-IPny com-IPny that these men would not join Wjje atrike pending an attempt to ob-'n ob-'n a conference with the Bethlehem Nttclala. T Some of the furnaces in the Pitts-4 Pitts-4 , r d'stnet werc banked, but the ma-'JB ma-'JB i!"k y f tlle Plants were in operation 'Ithough admittedly with forces re-Uced re-Uced from 15 to 66 per cent. In the W'cago district, including Gary and i nammond, where 90,000 steel workers re employed, 6imilar conditions were Reported. At Cleveland the union lead-I(er lead-I(er claimed that 15,000 men werc out and that 16 mills of the American Steel and Wire company, employing 000 men, were dosed down At Ohio's second greatest steel center, Youngstown, the strike leaders also claimed that the great majority of the workers had struck and at Steu-benville, Steu-benville, where three plants of the Carneg'c Steel company are located, it was asserted that all three had been forced to suspend operations At the lees important points in Ohio and Pennsylvania officials of the various plants announced that their men had remained loyal and that operations were in full swing One notable ex ccption was Johnstown, Pa., where 12.000 men were reported to have struck. Outside the great pivots of the states of Ohio and Indiana, conditions were reported nearly normal with a few important im-portant exceptions. At Buffalo where the great independent plants of the Lackawanna Steel company are located, lo-cated, the union chiefs claimed that 70 per cent of the workers had obeyed the strike call. At Wheeling, W. Va., it was asserted that BC00 men were idle and the Colorado Fuel and Iron company's plant at Pueblo was closed down when its 2000 employes walked out. The mills of the Illinois Steel company com-pany at South Chicago were closed the unions estimating that 95 per cent of the 4000 men on the day shift had struck CHICAGO. Sept. 22 The steel mills at South rhieupo operated by the Illinois Il-linois Steel company a subsidiary of the United States Steel eorporation closed this morninc as a result of the nation-wide strike of steel workers. Only a few of the foremen remained ar work. It wns estimated by union officials offi-cials that 95 per cent of the 1000 men on the day shift failed to report for work. No official figures were given out by company officials At the Illinois Steel company plant in Milwaukee. Son of the 1800 day workers failed to report, say union officials of-ficials At the Illinois Steel company's plants in Joliet so many of the 3500 employes had quii that officials of the conipanv wre unable to say immedi ately after the opening hour whether enough men had reported to pet nut operation of the plant No disorders have lipr-n reported to the police from any of the plants af fected in the Chicago steel district. 3000 Men at Work. At the Illinois steel plant officials said 30U" out of 12, mm inn on dav shift were at work Eight of the 12 blast furnaces at tho Illinois steel plant were banked, officials said. Switchmen union officials said that rail traffic In the yards of the various steel plants was completely tied up. Officials of the American Steel and Wire company at Waukegan announced an-nounced that approximately thirt yper cenl of the lS0i employes reported for work. Union leader;., however, claimed that between eighty-five and ninety per cent of the workers responded to the strike call. The Btrikers requested that several of their number be sworn in as special spe-cial deputies, but the authorities declined de-clined to accede to this proposal. Men Report for Work. CHICAGO, Sept. 22. With the pos- i Bible exception of the engineers om-p!oed om-p!oed m ihe steel m'.lls at flar; . !"d . and Joliet, ill all members of the In-1 ernationnl Union of Steam and Opera i five Engineers reported for work at the steel plants today, according to j information reaching II M. Comerford, 1 general secretary-treasurer Of the union The strike of the steel workers was not approved by the engineers and ; thev were Instructed to remain a.1 their work Secretary Comerford said that "on engineers in the Gary plants, de pite instructions not to strike, were undecided in regard to Joining the walkout. If they finally decided to, Btrtke, thev would have to aeeept the responsibility, Secretan Comerford said. Only a few of the engineers in the j steel plant at Joliet refused to report for work, reports said BRIMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 22 -Offl-i rials of the steel companies expr -satisfaction with the situation Union j officers eald the strike was "fulfilling "fulfill-ing all r ypectatlons " Report From Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Sept 22 Re-I Re-I ports from plants iu the Schuylkill valley were that the strike had not affected the steel industry there, all men reporting for work thus far The I same condition obtained in the Harris burg district. Tho Bethlehem Steel company's plants there are in full operation. op-eration. Of the more than 5000 men employed em-ployed by the Coatesville branch of the Midvalc corporation and the Luk-ens Luk-ens Steel company, about 400 re-imained re-imained away Most of those on strike are foreigu laborers. Twelve thousand iron and steel , workers are on strike in the Johnstown Johns-town district, union officials estimated today. No statement came from Ihe 'companies early in Ihe day. Only one ! plant, the Sharon Steel Hoop com pany, wait scrioush affected in the Sharon district So few men had re-ported re-ported in the plant that the remain in 1800 employes who had reported , for work were laid off and thr- works i closed. PITTSBURC. Pa, Sept 22 "We I got away in good shape at most of our plants in and about Pittsburg (bis mornln?.' said B representative Tf the Carnegie Steel company when 'isked for a statement on the effeel of the steel workers' strike whieh went into 1 effect today. "We are agTeeably surprised at the showing made.' was the announcement announce-ment by William Z Poster, secretary of the national tommiiiee for orsn izing iron and Bteel workers who i iin charge of the Pittsburg district. j CHICAGO. Sept 22 Numbers of workers in plants of the United States Stcl corporation at Gary, South Chicago, Chi-cago, Joliet and Indiana Harbor, all in the Chicago district, at midnight I joined the nation-wide strike of steel workers called for this morning The number of 6teel workers employed in I tho Chicago distrtri la estimattd at 90.000. Six of the eleven blast furnaces at I the South Chicago plant were closed j during the night and should the en ginecrs carry out their threat to strike lit was taid a total of thirty nine blast I furnaces in the Chicago district, which I includes forty-three mills within B radius of nini 1 1 i 1 1 o - of this city, , would be compelled to clobe. Shutting |
